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"Rowdy" Roddy Piper, one the iconic villains when professional wrestling boomed into a profitable pay-to-view television event, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 61. Piper, whose real name was Roderick George Toombs, died "peacefully in his sleep" , according to his talent agent, Jay Schachter. "I am shocked and beyond devastated. He was an amazing man and a true friend. He was one of the most generous, sincere and authentic people I have ever known," Schachter wrote in an email. "This is a true loss to us all." Piper was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2006, and completed radiation therapy the following...

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